Petson,

FileOpen. You will see a window that reads Files of type. You likely will
see "Recover text from any file" in that window. This is the cause of your
problem. Change this using the little arrow to the right of the window to
All Word Documents or one of the other choices.

--
Greg Maxey/Word MVP
A Peer in Peer to Peer Support

Petson wrote:
My Word document has an 'audit trail' of what appears to be menu
selections made while creating it (see below) , and other documents
show the same thing. Is there a function to turn this on or off, and
if so, can anyone tell me where to find it:

Example:
M6C:\My Documents\Thesis\Chapter8 16 Feb 04.doc
A :\CHA PTER 6.doc3
A :\CHA PTER 6.doc3????
^;;9f\
Cm2@f4
f
Times New Roman
Times New Roman
Symbol
Symbol
C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Templates\Thesis(JB).dot

Any help will be appreciated.